Mayo Clinic
hideMayo Clinic is a non-profit organization and internationally renowned group medical practice headquartered in Rochester, Minnesota. Its headquarters consist of the Mayo Medical School, the Mayo Graduate School, the Mayo College of Graduate Medical Education, and several other health science schools. Its research facilities are in Rochester, Minnesota, in addition to hospitals and clinics in Jacksonville, Florida, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Phoenix, Arizona. Mayo Clinic partners with a number of smaller clinics and hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, an organization known as the "Mayo Health System."
For historical reasons, the institution is called "Mayo Clinic," rather than "The Mayo Clinic" or "Mayo's Clinic." The clinic started as a single, small outpatient facility, and later became America's first integrated group practice, a model that is now standard in the United States.
Mayo Clinic pays medical doctors a fixed salary that is unaffected by patient volume. This practice is thought to decrease the monetary motivation to see patients in large numbers and increase the incentive to spend more time with individuals. Salaries are determined instead by the marketplace salaries for physicians in comparable large group practices.
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A comprehensive review of addiction to prescription painkillers among patients and physicians
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Chemical dependency and recovery in patients and physicians are closely examined in a series of articles and editorials in the July 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The subject is especially timely. As the immense challe ...
The evolution of migraine from episodic headache to chronic disorder
May 26, 2009 |
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Patients living with migraine have strong reason for new optimism concerning a positive future. Two review articles and an accompanying editorial, "The Future of Migraine: Beyond Just Another Pill," in the current issue of ...
Mayo Clinic backs new personal health record site
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft Corp.'s technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information.
Simple finger device may help predict future heart attack
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Results of a Mayo Clinic study show that a simple, noninvasive finger sensor test is "highly predictive" of a major cardiac event, such as a heart attack or stroke, for people who are considered at low or moderate risk, according ...
Researchers find link between anesthesia exposure and learning disabilities in children
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that children who require multiple surgeries under anesthesia during their first three years of life are at higher risk of developing learning disabilities later. Several studies have suggested ...
Patients being discharged against medical advice
Mar 09, 2009 |
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When patients choose to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge, the consequences may involve risk of inadequately treated medical conditions and the need for readmission, according to a review ...
Statins lower stroke severity, improve recovery
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers have shown that patients who were taking statins before a stroke experienced better outcomes and recovery than patients who weren't on the drug — even when their cholesterol levels were ideal. The ...
Study suggests new treatment approach needed for management of depression with bipolar disorder
Feb 11, 2009 |
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In a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, a team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Mark Frye, M.D., attempted to identify what factors make some people with bipolar depression more likely to exp ...
Improving brain processing speed helps memory
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers found that healthy, older adults who participated in a computer-based training program to improve the speed and accuracy of brain processing showed twice the improvement in certain aspects of memory, ...
Researchers suspect a novel gene is causing restless legs syndrome in a large family
Feb 03, 2009 |
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In 2005, a woman who had trouble sleeping asked Siong-Chi Lin, M.D., for help. Dr. Lin, a sleep disorders specialist at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida, diagnosed restless legs syndrome. This common neurologic disorder ...
Younger men with erectile dysfunction at double risk of heart disease
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Men who experience erectile dysfunction between the ages of 40 and 49 are twice as likely to develop heart disease than men without dysfunction, according to a new Mayo Clinic study.
Researchers find experimental therapy turns on tumor suppressor gene in cancer cells
Jan 20, 2009 |
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic have found that the experimental drug they are testing to treat a deadly form of thyroid cancer turns on a powerful tumor suppressor capable of halting cell growth. Few other cancer drugs have this ...
Variants in gene on X chromosome associated with increased susceptibility to Alzheimer's
Jan 11, 2009 |
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic have discovered the first gender-linked susceptibility gene for late-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Brain disorder suggests common mechanism may underlie many neurodegenerative diseases
Jan 11, 2009 |
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A Mayo Clinic-led international consortium has found a mechanism that may help explain Parkinson's and other neurological disorders.
Study finds increased risk of pneumococcal disease in asthma patients
Dec 19, 2008 |
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Mayo Clinic research shows adults with asthma are at increased risk of serious pneumococcal disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most common bacteria causing middle ear infections and community acquired pneumonia. ...
